nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220823-181803-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220823s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220823-181803-0 doi eng 342 23 Mayer, Benoit Author aut From Intellectual Poker to Open Debate - A More Fundamental Issue With Scholactivism Mayer, Benoit Verfassungsblog 2022-08-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Tarunabh Khaitan’s editorial in the International Journal of Constitutional Law presents insightful remarks about the risk that scholactivism may fail both as scholarship and as activism. I largely share Khaitan’s discomfort with scholactivism, which confuses two different goals: advancing human knowledge and advancing a political goal. However, I wonder whether the instrumentalist argument that Khaitan develops is really the decisive one. In this blog, I present some doubts about this instrumentalist argument before suggesting another line of argument, based on the intrinsic nature of academic research. CC BY-SA 4.0 Activism Scholarship Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/from-intellectual-poker-to-open-debate/ raw object